lcd smartie tutorial

bc819 · Post by **bc819** » February 16th, 2006, 3:11 pm

Is there any howtos for using lcd smartie? I'd like to display some text, like pass or fail, based on a status of a switch. OR can i use a command line command to tell the lcdsmartie to print some message on the display. I'm trying to use a crystalFontz CFAH1202A LCD display to report the result of some tests.
Any help is appreciated.

Post by **limbo** » February 16th, 2006, 6:04 pm

Do you mean network switch? if so you can use the ping plugin.

You can also use the warnif plugin to display a message depending on a condition (readed from another proccess or dll)

About the direct display to LCD I have made a mini prog called LCD Smartie direct which can help on this case if the target is to direct type a message from your desktop without the need to iopen the configuration of the program every time.

Please be more specific about your needs...

bc819 · Post by **bc819** » February 16th, 2006, 11:02 pm

Thanks, limbo. It's not a network switch. Actually, I have a perl script starts a DOS program, when the program finishes, the script reads the exit code of that program. I'd like the LCD to display either pass or fail depends on the return of the exit code.

Post by **limbo** » February 17th, 2006, 9:01 am

Can you make this program write down to a file or registry value?

bc819 · Post by **bc819** » February 17th, 2006, 2:34 pm

I can have the perl script to write the message to a file, but i don't know how to write to resistry in perl yet.

Post by **limbo** » February 20th, 2006, 7:07 am

writing to file is a good solution...
you ca use the $File(C:\file.txt,1) command to read the values